Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Leaf-shaped blade with straight upper edge. Plain bolster. Tapering silver ferrule with traces of gilding. Tapering porcelain handle with rounded end. Floral decoration, with birds and decorative bands along the sides, top and bottom of the handle in black, green, yellow, red and blue. (Famille Verte) Small botton cap at the end of the handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- handle: 1662–1722; blade: early 18th century
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- porcelain, gold, steel, silver
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 21 × 2.3 × 2.2 cm (8 1/4 × 7/8 × 7/8 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
